"You guys in the Green Camp are all useless losers. Look at these photos. It's simply appalling. When did the poverty-stricken, backward and traffic-clogged southern Gansu region suddenly have such a powerful army?"

"Look, we don't have German Krupp artillery and Gatling heavy machine guns yet. Even these rifles are more advanced than us. They are simply more regular equipment than the New Army!"

Jiangxi Governor Nie Jiugui, who had just taken office less than a month ago, was furious with the Admiral Yamen.

Nie Jiugui had served as governor in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui and was well-informed. His sensitivity to weapons and equipment was naturally much better than those of the old-fashioned Jiangxi bureaucrats.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Jiangxi was a poor province with barren land, poor mountains and rivers, blocked transportation, and backward industry. It could not afford to support new troops.

However, the existing green battalions, city defense battalions, etc. are all using old weapons, which have no combat effectiveness.

He knew very well that in addition to spiritual will and strategy, weapons and equipment were very important elements for the army.

"Commander, these armed forces are not regular troops, they are security forces under the Gannan Fengzhong Mining Corporation, and they are suppressing bandits near their mines!" Jiangxi Governor Yin Zhiping replied cautiously.

The governor of Jiangxi Province was not as awesome as Li Cunzhi, the governor of Zhejiang Province. The governor was always polite and respectful when he saw him.

The place is extremely poor and opium is rampant everywhere. Below him are all old, weak, sick and disabled soldiers from the green camp. Their hands are full of scraps of metal, or firecrackers like fire sticks, and rusty old Hanyang sleeves.

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These guys can't even defeat ordinary bandits. How can he dare to provoke the well-equipped security forces?

"Damn it, you are blind. These so-called security forces in mining areas are clearly disguised as the New Army of Zhejiang Province. Once the badges and epaulettes are torn off and replaced with security armbands, what kind of security forces are they? Damn it.

, This is my Nie’s territory, and their Zhejiang army dares to come and act wild." Nie Jiugui roared.

He hated Chen Tianhua with all his heart, but he didn't expect that his ghost would linger and they would meet him again in Jiangxi and Gannan. They were really enemies on a narrow road.

"Commander, he... they are suppressing bandits, help us suppress bandits!" Admiral Yin Zhiping did not want to cause trouble, so he explained quickly.

"Suppressing bandits? Who invited them here, was it you? It's true that dogs are meddling in other people's business. This is our territory in Jiangxi, and they came uninvited?"

Nie Jiugui was so angry that his face turned green, his self-esteem was severely bruised, and his voice became louder and louder, frightening the officials and staff around him to the point of trembling with fear.

"Commander, let's submit a memorial to the imperial court to impeach Li Cunzhi and Chen Tianhua. They are acting out of bounds. According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, are they trying to rebel?" Chief of Staff Xiao Xuan, who had been watching with cold eyes, finally spoke.

Got it.

"Okay, let's take a two-pronged approach. Master Xiao personally drew up the memorial and sent it to the military aircraft office quickly, asking the court to issue an order to punish him. The Admiral's Office sent out the Green Battalion to closely monitor the movements of the new army in Zhejiang Province."

"As ordered." The admiral and Xiao Xuan said almost in unison.

Yin Zhiping returned to the Admiral's Mansion, feeling uneasy.

Although he is an admiral of the first province and a military attache of the second grade, he has to be shy. In fact, when it comes to weapons and equipment, the only ones that can be used are the old artillery in the arsenal. They are all rusty and can only be used now.

Let the soldiers carry it out to bask in the sun, wipe it and see if it can be used. Then it will be enough to scare people.

The officials in the Admiral's Yamen also felt aggrieved, and they burst into tears when talking about it.

Paralyzed! You, the governor's yamen, the chief envoys and those big bosses have been reselling opium, ore, etc. over the years, and your mouth is full of oil, but you have not allocated any military reserve funds to our Green Camp. How can we have the money to implement the infiltration plan into southern Ganxi?

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Besides, was that ghost place worth paying attention to before?

Now I'm anxious, isn't it because Fengzhong Mining caused trouble and discovered a large amount of mineral resources, which became popular, and now the new governor is accusing the Admiral's Office of inaction?

In fact, it is still a barren land, but a large number of underground minerals have been discovered. What’s all the fuss about?

There is nothing else in Jiangxi, but there are a lot of ores, but mining requires a lot of money. Who has such strength?

It’s not Fengzhong Mining!

It is said that the special task group of the New Army under the command of Ji Chunsheng slowly advanced towards the Dayu and Dingnan Mountains, and the bandits also made moves.

They are neither resisting nor attacking, but retreating and shrinking step by step.

Facing dozens of field mountain cannons, large-caliber mortars, countless grenades, and more than thirty light and heavy machine guns, how could those ragtag bandits have the courage to fire.

Chen Tianhua's strategy was to use fierce artillery fire first as a warning, so that the bandits would retreat or surrender, so that the young and middle-aged people could work in the mining areas and have enough food and clothing.

There are so many bandits here because they are too poor, and most of them are transformed from poor local families.

The mountains in southern Jiangxi have very little vegetation and are mostly bare. The bandits can eat cornbread every day, which is considered a good life. Oil and water are luxuries.

Just use your strong strength to defeat the enemy without a fight and drive them out of the mining area.

If faced with those fierce and stubborn bandits, of course they would not be so polite and would resolutely annihilate them.

But then again, if the bandits really unite and become stubborn, with just the manpower of the special task force and spread across the entire southern Jiangxi region, there really won't be much that can be done to the bandits for a while.

There are mountains and forests everywhere around you. If you dig into them, where are you going to find these people?

"Divide and encircle, don't kill ordinary bandits indiscriminately, put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha immediately, adopt the same strategy, press forward step by step but don't shoot first."

After receiving the reports from Ji Chunsheng and Song Xiaoniu, Chen Tianhua made a decision.

The bandit leaders and habitual bandits were dumbfounded by this kind of intimidation and strategy. Their minions fell apart one after another, walked out of the mountain gate in groups, and surrendered to the special task force.

Paralyzed, with just this strength, it's like Mount Tai weighing you down.

The Jiangxi Green Camp Army also strengthened its garrison strength in Dayu and Dingnan areas in southern Jiangxi. The Green Camp held a meeting for two days and cursed for two days.

These rich and powerful families are really bullying people. They are rich and powerful and send troops to other people's homes. How is this inappropriate?

But the problem is, how dare you get angry but dare not speak out!

Manxingdie is a small town located in the mountains of southeastern Jiangxi. It is close to the border of northern Guangdong and is the base camp of the great bandit Hong Asi.

This guy was originally a bandit from Poyang Lake. He was driven out due to internal strife more than ten years ago and settled all over the place.

There are permanent fortifications here, more than a dozen general cannons from the Ming and Qing dynasties, French rapid-fire cannons, many blunderbuss, shotguns, old Hanyang sleeves and other firearms, as well as a large number of crossbows.

More than a thousand fully armed sergeants of the New Army Task Force, two artillery companies, a total of eighteen 75mm mountain cannons, more than twenty mortars, and more than twenty light and heavy machine guns, surrounded this place and could be launched at any time.
Chapter completed!